Radium dial workers: Issues concerning dose response and modeling

Radiation Research

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 707-714

  Carnes, Bruce A ^a   Groer, Peter G ^b   Kotek, Thomas J ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM; RADIUM 226;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DEATH; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTOID; MORTALITY; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BONE NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIUM; SARCOMA;

EID: 0030954580     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579484     Document Type: Article

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